Get ready for the most impressive centerpiece dish ever to hit your table. A Thor’s Hammer is a large beef shank on the bone, which has been stripped and cleaned to look like the end of a hammer.

Keeping track of all the best cuts of beef from chuck to shank isn't easy -- and those aren't even obscure cuts. A beef ...

Beef shanks are so full of cartilage that they sometimes get forgotten, but that very quality makes them ideal for pot roast.